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Monday 26 March 2012

Water Project Book- Week 2

I have collected water facts for the book that I am writing for the water project. The book is going to be about a older sister and she is teaching her brother about water scarcity and water facts. She is taking him around the house giving facts and telling him how to save water in different ways.
These are the facts:

  1. More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.
  2. An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than a typical person in a developing country slum uses in a whole day.
  3. The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
  4. Women spend 200 million hours collecting water in a day. That is equivalent to building 28 empire state buildings each day.
  5. Every 20 seconds a child dies from a water related disease
  6. 3.575 people die each year from a water related disease, that is equal to the entire city of Los Angeles.
  7. The majority of illnesses is caused by fecal matter. Only 10% of waste gets treated, the rest goes into our lakes, rivers, and oceans.
  8. Three things most of the world can't do: 1. Take a hot shower . 2. Get clean water from the tap. 3. flush away yesterdays dinner.
  9. More than 3x more people lack water than live in the US.  
     

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